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Traits Evaluation by Carl (Game Changer)
Hestia
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The Worst Sim. What’s it like playing Sims with ALL the BAD traits in The Sims 4?
https://youtu.be/bsj6KWKifB0
By EA Game Changer, Carl.
https://youtu.be/bsj6KWKifB0By EA Game Changer, Carl.
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I’ll upload how a Sim reacts when they are in a negative mood or have negative traits from The Sims 1/2/3.
(nice legs, shame about the face)
Except in sims 4 it's the opposite. Nice face, shame about the legs. Sims 4 is pretty, but it has no legs. Nothing to stand on.
Emotions override anything anyways, even if the traits did do something. Emotions need to be turned down (especially happy) and they will have to work on some animations and interactions to make the traits actually useful, and program them into the autonomy so that sims actually do things related to their traits. I don't think I see this team fixing this game anymore. It's been 6 years. It has been complained about this entire time. It should have been done at launch or fixed within the first year (and that's being generous IMO). I would however love them to prove me wrong.
If we could have 5 traits instead of 3, it would be much better IMO.
Additionally, there are not that many of them to begin with.
I myself use certain mods that change the way emotions and traits work.
As to what I bolded above, I see it differently. The traits really only trigger when an emotion with happen. But it's the same emotion for all sims. The trait triggers outdoor lovers to get tense if they haven't been outside.
The trait triggers materialists to get tense if they haven't bought something new.
The trait triggers geeks to get tense if they haven't played video games.
-ambitious sims to get tense if they haven't had a promotion.
- creative sims to get tense if they haven't painted etc.
and on and on it goes. And why it's so dang boring to play.
All sims pout when they are sad, some just get sad more than others. All sims slam the fridge and stomp when they are angry, some just get angry more often than others. The animations aren't specific to a trait. All sims have them based on the emotion they are in, and they all get emotions regardless of traits.
You are speaking about the personality traits, so yes in that regard agree! Yet still fill a room with emotional aura objects and those emotions are so easily manipulated that the they become meaningless. So traits are just another manipulation system for sim emotions. Character value traits, at least from what I’ve seen in my game do absolutely nothing but trigger an animation. My sim has been happy and suddenly she’s having a tantrum for no apparent reason. The trait itself says, that sims with uncontrolled emotions won’t be able to relieve their negative emotions as fast as other sims. I have not seen that in game. My sim relieves hers quite easily and quickly.
Just now she was dancing and having a great time in her bake shop. Stopped, had a tantrum, and continued on happy ringing up customers 🤷🏽♀️
I loved when this kind of things happened in sims 3. We were in charge of the simulation but we were simulating the life of sims with their own personality! It was a real challenge to make a hot headed popular hahah and if we weren't up for this kind of challenge then we could just don't give sims this kind of traits...
What mods do you use? I’m trying to find some to use that work on these areas.
I completely agree with you on that this was done on purpose. They have never even addressed these major issues on The sims 4 and they keep trying to cover it with decoration stuff that means nothing. If they truly wanted to fix it, they would have done it a hundred times already, cause they can. They just refuse to, cause The sims 4 was designed to be shallow, taking control of base elements and from there let the player 'decide' and it's target seems to be taking away the meaning of togetherness, family play and a let us getting used to a very VERY egocentric vibe. Isn't that what the world looks like nowadays? People act like what they see.
Exactly! The whims system? Completely useless! Their remedy? Auto disable it, don’t update it and let them toggle it on if they wish to use something that means nothing. That action right there is indicative of what you just mentioned, they are not going to improve it or fix it. Modders have done it, not to perfection, but at least they’ve tried to tune it and have it make a bit more sense. Five years in and it’s all fluff, very little substance to much of it. It’s a beautiful game and I wish I could play it more, but it’s hard to find enjoyment in it when there’s is no uniqueness to any of the sims. I see no randomness, no surprises, no moments of why did that sim just do that? Let me stop before I derail OP’s thread, but I’m sure you get where I’m going lol!